It's called
Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with Almost No Money
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0876639872/ref=nosim/foldedspaceor-20/
I found this weird place where you can read it online for free, but I don't have the link to it at work.
It was written in the mid 1970's by Dolly Freed. Dolly was a teenager girl at the time. She lived with her dad on a 1/2 acre lot in Pennsylvania. They lived on $1,400 year. Grew their own food and stuff.
I am hesitant to actually recommend the book to anyone because of the way it was written. It's out of print now. I'm not sure why, but there's a lot of material in there that is definitely not PC by today's standards. And I only got to page 31 before I went to sleep this morning.
It's funny and crazy, though! They raise rabbits and chickens in their cellar (because it's often too cold to bother walking outside to tend to them.) Dolly admits that laziness is their primary motivator for not wanting a job.
Where it gets strange is ... Well, I guess there wasn't so much political sensitivity in the mid 70's. Dolly mentions some people who like to live simply due to religious or ideological reasons and basically calls them cultist wackos. She writes very intelligently for a teenage girl. Every once in a while I would read a phrase that sounded a little immature. But I wouldn't have thought so if I hadn't known she was young.
Then, some of their methods of cheap living are completely suspect... like the tax evasion and poaching on public lands. Then, she describes how to avoid the SPCA if you want to trap pigeons in densely populated areas.
I find it a little shocking. But not offensive. I was growing up during that time, and I remember a lot of people who actually did those kinds of things.
She has so far gone into great detail about what regional wildlife is tastey enough to eat and what doesn't have enough meat on it to bother with. She describes how to dress out rabbits. And it takes quite a long time to explain, but then she says it's not as complicated as it sounds because she was doing it by herself when she was ten.
It is really fascinating. I just wonder if anyone else would be interested in reading it. I only want to be very clear about the off color bits. It may get much worse as I read on.
Cassandra
Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with Almost No Money
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0876639872/ref=nosim/foldedspaceor-20/
I found this weird place where you can read it online for free, but I don't have the link to it at work.
It was written in the mid 1970's by Dolly Freed. Dolly was a teenager girl at the time. She lived with her dad on a 1/2 acre lot in Pennsylvania. They lived on $1,400 year. Grew their own food and stuff.
I am hesitant to actually recommend the book to anyone because of the way it was written. It's out of print now. I'm not sure why, but there's a lot of material in there that is definitely not PC by today's standards. And I only got to page 31 before I went to sleep this morning.
It's funny and crazy, though! They raise rabbits and chickens in their cellar (because it's often too cold to bother walking outside to tend to them.) Dolly admits that laziness is their primary motivator for not wanting a job.
Where it gets strange is ... Well, I guess there wasn't so much political sensitivity in the mid 70's. Dolly mentions some people who like to live simply due to religious or ideological reasons and basically calls them cultist wackos. She writes very intelligently for a teenage girl. Every once in a while I would read a phrase that sounded a little immature. But I wouldn't have thought so if I hadn't known she was young.
Then, some of their methods of cheap living are completely suspect... like the tax evasion and poaching on public lands. Then, she describes how to avoid the SPCA if you want to trap pigeons in densely populated areas.
I find it a little shocking. But not offensive. I was growing up during that time, and I remember a lot of people who actually did those kinds of things.
She has so far gone into great detail about what regional wildlife is tastey enough to eat and what doesn't have enough meat on it to bother with. She describes how to dress out rabbits. And it takes quite a long time to explain, but then she says it's not as complicated as it sounds because she was doing it by herself when she was ten.
It is really fascinating. I just wonder if anyone else would be interested in reading it. I only want to be very clear about the off color bits. It may get much worse as I read on.
Cassandra
